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I genuinely cannot look forward to the second season of HBO’s The Last of Us present. I’m not all that jazzed to look at it myself, however I actually wanna see how people who have not performed The Last of Us Part 2 react to its greater moments. HBO put out a trailer this week (watch above) that means season two is not shying away from the darkest and presumably most controversial moments within the recreation.
I hope it’s going to be much less controversial to counsel that folk wait to look at HBO’s model and as a substitute play The Last of Us Part 2 first. It’s actually good, and it is also coming to PC across the identical time that the present comes again in April.
This is usually based mostly on my expertise with season one, which began actually robust and had that neat Bill episode that expanded on a personality we by no means received to know within the 2013 recreation. But I wasn’t as pleased with HBO’s tireless dash by way of the story, its shocking lack of motion (the brutality of which was core to videogame Joel’s improvement as a murderous anti-hero), and Pedro Pascal’s resting unhappy face. Season one was a worthy interpretation of the sport, however HBO’s Joel and Ellie had drifted distant from their originals by the finale.
Which is why I’m assured you will get one thing totally different (and possibly higher) out of taking part in The Last of Us Part 2 earlier than watching the broad strokes model of its story unfold over ten episodes. There’s additionally the truth that Naughty Dog’s sequel is a reasonably wonderful stealth-action recreation, continually difficult you to beat uneven odds by way of avoidance, anticipation, and useful resource administration.
I’m planning a replay of Part 2 earlier than giving the present one other shot, and my thoughts is open to the methods HBO might enhance on it, too. I’ll have an interest to see if the present has something extra poignant to say concerning the good ol’ “cycle of violence” than the comparatively weak sauce Neil Druckmann placed on the web page.
